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Black Spiritualist Storefront Churches

CTL-E-1381 · Practice · other · unspecified

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Black Spiritualist storefront tradition in Chicago: healing-and-prophecy-oriented small churches, part of the storefront phenomenon from the 1930s onward.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from SCI-004; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-SCI-004:spiritualist-churches; source research type(s): practice. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

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The Wabash Avenue YMCA, Chicago
The Wabash Avenue YMCA, ChicagoPhoto: Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A greystone home converted to a church, South Side, Chicago, 1941
A greystone home converted to a church, South Side, Chicago, 1941Photo: Russell Lee, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress
A converted-storefront church with cars of the congregation, Chicago, 1941
A converted-storefront church with cars of the congregation, Chicago, 1941Photo: Russell Lee, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress

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